Rather than offer a number of different battery pack models each with a set range, Samsung instead decided to go down the modular route. Their new battery pack can be fitted with up to 20 modules, offering a range of up to 700km. However, vehicle manufacturers can opt to place fewer modules within the pack, therefore reducing the range but offering greater flexibility in the design of the car around the battery.

As this one battery pack can offer multiple ranges, it also means lower costs for Samsung when it comes to manufacturing them, but also for vehicle manufacturers who can now place large orders for one type of battery pack and then install the appropriate number of modules to suit each car and range. They may even decide to let new car customers choose their own range and add the correct number of modules as each vehicle rolls off the production line.

Samsung also used the show to unveil two new type of battery cells and modules. The first is called "Low Height Cell" and features a height reduction of 20 percent over existing electric vehicle cells. By reducing the height, Samsung is allowing manufacturers to maximize the interior space of a vehicle.

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New modules based on the "21700" cylindrical battery design were also introduced. Each 21700 cell is 21mm in diameter and 70mm tall while offering 50 percent more capacity than the 18650 battery that are commonly used today. To put that capacity gain into perspective, the 18650 battery measures 18.6mm in diameter and is 65.2mm tall. So that's significantly more capacity for very little size increase.

We can expect to see 21700 batteries using in everything from electric cars and bikes through to electric tools and maybe even laptops just like the 18650 cells.

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In recent days, word about Nvidia’s new Turing architecture started leaking out of the Santa Clara-based company’s headquarters. So it didn’t come as a major surprise that the company today announced during its Siggraph keynote the launch of this new architecture and three new pro-oriented workstation graphics cards in its Quadro family.
Nvidia describes the new Turing architecture as “the greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006.” That’s a high bar to clear, but there may be a kernel of truth here. These new Quadro RTx chips are the first to feature the company’s new RT Cores. “RT” here stands for ray tracing, a rendering method that basically traces the path of light as it interacts with the objects in a scene. This technique has been around for a very long time (remember POV-Ray on the Amiga?). Traditionally, though, it was always very computationally intensive, though the results tend to look far more realistic. In recent years, ray tracing got a new boost thanks to faster GPUs and support from the likes of Microsoft, which recently added ray tracing support to DirectX.
“Hybrid rendering will change the industry, opening up amazing possibilities that enhance our lives with more beautiful designs, richer entertainment and more interactive experiences,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “The arrival of real-time ray tracing is the Holy Grail of our industry.”
The new RT cores can accelerate ray tracing by up to 25 times compared to Nvidia’s Pascal architecture, and Nvidia claims 10 GigaRays a second for the maximum performance.
Unsurprisingly, the three new Turing-based Quadro GPUs will also feature the company’s AI-centric Tensor Cores, as well as 4,608 CUDA cores that can deliver up to 16 trillion floating point operations in parallel with 16 trillion integer operations per second. The chips feature GDDR6 memory to expedite things, and support Nvidia’s NVLink technology to scale up memory capacity to up to 96GB and 100GB/s of bandwidth.
The AI part here is more important than it may seem at first. With NGX, Nvidia today also launched a new platform that aims to bring AI into the graphics pipelines. “NGX technology brings capabilities such as taking a standard camera feed and creating super slow motion like you’d get from a $100,000+ specialized camera,” the company explains, and also notes that filmmakers could use this technology to easily remove wires from photographs or replace missing pixels with the right background.
On the software side, Nvidia also today announced that it is open sourcing its Material Definition Language (MDL).
Companies ranging from Adobe (for Dimension CC) to Pixar, Siemens, Black Magic, Weta Digital, Epic Games and Autodesk have already signed up to support the new Turing architecture.
All of this power comes at a price, of course. The new Quadro RTX line starts at $2,300 for a 16GB version, while stepping up to 24GB will set you back $6,300. Double that memory to 48GB and Nvidia expects that you’ll pay about $10,000 for this high-end card.

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